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"I knew from a young age that I wasn't the same as the other children," says Sophie Roberts, a 34-year-old Amazon software manager based in Edinburgh."I realised at around 14 or 15 that I was transgender but I wasn't comfortable at that point in my life in being out about it."It was 20 years later that she took the decision to come out at work. Last month, after two years at Amazon, she started coming into the office as Sophie.She admits she was nervous that her transition would affect her professionally - the tech sector isn't exactly renowned for its diverse workforce.But her experience at Amazon may have lessons for other companies big and small."I did go into it thinking to myself, 'Is this going to be a problem?'" she told the BBC.However, for Sophie...

SEOUL, Oct. 26 (UPI) -- A 97-year-old woman, a victim of Japanese wartime military sexual slavery, died of old age on Friday. The death of Ha Jeon-yeom leaves the total number of surviving victims of Japanese military sexual slavery during World War II -- euphemistically called "comfort women" -- at 27, down from a total of 240 victims officially registered, according to Yonhap News. Ha was forced to serve in Japanese military brothels in several places in Asia where Japanese troops fought, including Taiwan; Hainan Island and Guangdong, China; Hong Kong; and Sumatra, Indonesia, according to House of Sharing, a shelter for sexual slavery victims. Ha returned to South Korea in 1946, a year after the war ended and had lived in Seoul. She stayed at the shelter for later years of her life. Su...

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'How Amazon helped me transition to a woman'

Former Japanese 'comfort woman' Ha Jeon-yeom dies at 97